Talk:International Municipal Signals Association (IMSA)
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[edit] Copyvio
This article is a repost of copyrighted material at this page. I have notified the author, User:Ten-of-Nine, and will wait as the article suggests there is permission to use. I have pointed the author towards Wikipedia policy regarding permission. Ifnord 02:03, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
- In truth I did request formal confirmation from the Executive Director. She passed the issue to their web site manager who never responded. I posted the info in good faith and retained the copywrite info pending what should have been an easy reply. At this point, I am starting to feel as if wikipedian admins are suddenly ganging up on my contributions. Yes I see the point of protecting copywrites, but I wonder where the line is drawn between ownership of historical information and public knowledge.
- Please give me some time to confirm permission OR to rewite/shorten/paraphrase the article. I assume I can provide links to IMSA's web site for the detailed info. IMSA, along with ITE are the two main organizations contributing input to the Federal Highway Administration in revising and developing highway standards. It would be a true shame to have the wikipedia article deleted without giving some time and assistance to fix the problems. Somebody who is more experienced than I in wiki legalese might be able to make sugestions on how I can please everyone... --Steve 02:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
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- It's been a couple of days. I'm going to tag the page as a copyvio. The tag has instructions on how to continue to edit +/- build the article on a temporary page. Basically the page has to be rewritten, one can't simply lift an entire page from a website. If permission is given from the original creator, it must be under the GNU Free Documentation License - which means no attribution (as currently on the page) and the right to freely modify (which is barred on the current page). Ifnord 17:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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- That's fine as long as we can have the time to sort this out. I started roughing the temp page tonight but it is nothing to look at right now. I've mostly been searching links to attempt to establish notability. Not many on the web that are suitable. May have to go pound the Library and come up with book refs. This whole notability issue may have started with good intentions, but it appears most Admins are too fussy about Requiring it. From browsing the discussion/vote lists, it seems a lot of valid pages are being trashed because the voters are being too tight with the rules vs the spirit of the rules. I'm surprised the article "God" hasn't been deleted as nn, since nobody can prove there is a God w/o faith only. <grin> Anyway, I appreciate the help. --Steve 02:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Revised page content
A WikiCookie reward has been left on your plate for good natured assistance to a frustrated and confused editor. MANY Thanks to User:Kcordina and User:Ifnord for assistance in sorting out difficulties with the previous temporary content of this article and helping restore the article with approvable content.
Again THANKS! --Steve 18:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
